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Cloud Security: 5 Steps for Developing an Enterprise Cloud Strategy

By Arron Fu, CTO, UniPrint.net on May 3, 2018

Cloud Security: 5 Steps for Developing an Enterprise Cloud Strategy

Many organizations are paying an opportunity cost when it comes to the cloud – security teams tend to hold back due to cloud security worries.

Fears about security prevent their use of cloud services and organizations are not able to fully leverage the benefits of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.

What Is Cloud Security?

Much of the IT world continues to operate under the misconception about security of public clouds – shared cloud infrastructure is risky.

This misconception reduces the ability for companies to take full advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of commercial cloud services.

The avoidance of cloud services can even lead to more security risks since organizations tend to rely on poorly managed in-house security systems with even more vulnerabilities.

While no technology – on premise or even cloud – is ever 100% secure or reliable, organizations can implement cloud security policies.

Cloud security is processes and policies that address security controls the provider puts in place to maintain data security, privacy, and compliance.

Cloud security also incorporates a data backup plan in the case of a cloud security breach.

Organizations that have the most success with cloud security have been able to address the considerations of IaaS workload security, SaaS control, and cloud management and provider management.

Public & Private Cloud Security

Developing an Enterprise Cloud Strategy

The most important step an organization can take to develop an enterprise cloud security is for corporate leadership to understand that cloud computing is indispensable, and needs to be managed through planning and policy.

1. Develop a Strategy

Develop a strategy for cloud use and management, including on what can be placed into the cloud and under what circumstances.

Most organizations have cloud strategies that lag way behind cloud use, meaning there is a large amount of unsanctioned or unrecognized cloud use.

2. Implement and Enforce Policies

Implement and enforce policies on cloud ownership, responsibility and risk acceptance by establishing expectations of the cloud use.

Every organization should maintain an inventory of the cloud services currently in use, and track the ownership and employees responsible.

At the end of the day, no organizational process can be properly undertaken and reliably used unless responsibility is explicit and enforced.


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3. Follow a Life Cycle

Follow a life cycle to cloud governance that focuses on operational control of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services.

Public cloud use requires regular attention to the status and performance of cloud service providers performing processes deemed critical.

While most enterprises concentrate on risk acceptance, other stages of the life cycle such as implementation, requirements analysis, continuous management, and end of life are stages that require more attention.

4. Develop organization expertise

Develop organization expertise for the implementation and control of the different cloud models you will be using.

Many organizations are struggling to understanding security knowledge fully, and many knowledge gaps are present as each IaaS service has its own user interface and vendor specific characteristics.

A successful approach must allocate resources to the development of skills to ensure all cloud use cases are secure and compliant.

5. Implement Central Management and Monitoring

Implement central management and monitoring to overcome the complexities of the cloud.

One of the downsides of the cloud is the complexities of different solutions, which leads to management inefficiencies.

Enterprises can implement third party multi-function control tools to integrate multiple public and hybrid clouds and ensure they are all compliant and meeting security expectations.

Without an enterprise cloud security strategy, CIO’s, CTO’s and other IT leaders feel uneasy about the use of the cloud.

Taking a top down approach to cloud security provides guidance on how the cloud should be used, and what needs to be done to ensure security and control of current and future cloud services.

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